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Ruto campaign in damage control mode after running mate's gaffes

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“After Kenyatta: the never-ending battle to take State House”

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After Kenyatta: the never-ending battle to take State House

The handshake between former opposition leader Raila Odinga and newly re-elected president Uhuru Kenyatta got the campaign to succeed Kenyatta off to a premature start. Odinga has been battling since then against William Ruto, who has himself been abandoned by the head of state. The seemingly never-ending campaign for the presidential elections, which are due to take place on 9 August 2022, has crystalised around the Building Bridges Initiative, a constitutional referendum. [...]

Presidential candidate William Ruto and his running mate Rigathi Gachagua (on left). © Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Deputy President William Ruto's campaign team is exasperated by the failure of his running mate, Rigathi Gachagua, to toe the official line. Communications advisers in the Kenya Kwanza coalition have had to deal with a string of polemics sparked by Gachagua's speeches and by comments on social media by some of Ruto's more vocal allies. [...] (558 words)

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